The Vancouver Canucks will be without forward Alexandre Burrows for a couple of weeks according to head coach John Tortorella.

The coach would not get into specifics about the injury to Burrows, but it is believed to be a foot injury picked up blocking a shot in the season opening, 4-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks.

And so it begins...

While I can't say I'm optimistic about this year, cause I'm not, I don't have an issue with the shotblocking. Up to that 5 on 3 kill the Canucks had some energy and aggressiveness to them, and I liked seeing Burrows give it up like that. Yes, he got injured, but we've had bad injuries in past years (Kesler, Maholtra, Booth etc) under a low-shot blocking regime. But what have we complained about in the past, not enough heart and go for it grit. If they can play up to that level I saw against SJS - if they can get that consistency Torts seeks - than you deal with injuries. I'm not so sure this lineup can, but we'll see...sucks about Burrows, but I do like that attitude.

JS back at full practice and could be ready to go in a game or two. At least he should get in during this road trip which is good news. I had high expectations for him this year and would love to see him with Booth and Kassian. Kassian because they have played well together in Chicago and Booth because of his speed and ability to go to the net.

All we need now is Burrows back and no more injuries!

Hamhuis feeling good, still a sore groin although not believed to be a major worry. He is struggling learning the new system especially since he is not operating at 100%. A work in progress getting the system down and it seems of all the D men he is struggling the most.

KeyserSoze wrote:For alllll the talk about "the Sedins blocking shots" since Torts was hired...

Registered blocked shots for far:

Dank - 3 Hank - 0

Wingers generally block more shots than centers due to positioning. Wouldn't read too much into that.

It's actually the other way around.

The majority of the top shot blockers are generally centres not wingers.

And there's not really much to read into. Point was that there was a lot of talk and concern about the Sedin's having to block a bunch of shots this year, and at this point they have only recorded a total of 3...combined.

KeyserSoze wrote:For alllll the talk about "the Sedins blocking shots" since Torts was hired...

Registered blocked shots for far:

Dank - 3 Hank - 0

Wingers generally block more shots than centers due to positioning. Wouldn't read too much into that.

It's actually the other way around.

The majority of the top shot blockers are generally centres not wingers.

And there's not really much to read into. Point was that there was a lot of talk and concern about the Sedin's having to block a bunch of shots this year, and at this point they have only recorded a total of 3...combined.

Who really cares of their total? On the PK it's more important that they take away scoring chances and even create a few SH chances.

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